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Humidity from Corn Sweat Intensifies Extreme Heat Wave in U.S. Midwest

Humidity from Corn Sweat Intensifies Extreme Heat Wave ...

SIN Jul 22, 2025 0 29

Humid heat is blanketing the eastern U.S. this week, exacerbated by “corn sweat”...

How Humility Can Restore Trust in Expertise

How Humility Can Restore Trust in Expertise

SIN Jul 21, 2025 0 29

Acknowledging the limits of one’s own knowledge could be as important a signal o...

Landmark Langlands Proof Advances Grand Unified Theory of Math

Landmark Langlands Proof Advances Grand Unified Theory ...

SIN Jul 21, 2025 0 29

The Langlands program has inspired and befuddled mathematicians for more than 50...

Who Was First in Flight? This 1925 Scientific American Piece Dives into a Museum Disagreement

Who Was First in Flight? This 1925 Scientific American ...

SIN Jul 21, 2025 0 26

This episode of Science Quickly goes on an archival adventure in Scientific Amer...

Tests that AIs Often Fail and Humans Ace Could Pave the Way for Artificial General Intelligence

Tests that AIs Often Fail and Humans Ace Could Pave the...

SIN Jul 19, 2025 0 19

Discover why some puzzles stump supersmart AIs but are easy for humans, what thi...

Can U.S. Math Research Survive NSF Funding Cuts?

Can U.S. Math Research Survive NSF Funding Cuts?

SIN Jul 18, 2025 0 33

A 72 percent reduction in federal funding is devastating to math research. The A...

Dropout.tv’s Brennan Lee Mulligan Brings Dungeons and Dragons to the Masses

Dropout.tv’s Brennan Lee Mulligan Brings Dungeons and D...

SIN Jul 18, 2025 0 22

Dropout.tv’s Brennan Lee Mulligan talks about the emotional and cultural importa...

This Number System Beats Binary, But Most Computers Can't Use It

This Number System Beats Binary, But Most Computers Can...

SIN Jul 18, 2025 0 27

Why do computers only work with the numbers 0 and 1? There are machines that pro...

Can You Drink Saturn’s Rings?

Can You Drink Saturn’s Rings?

SIN Jul 18, 2025 0 30

It’s certainly possible to consume water sourced from the icy rings of Saturn, b...

Three-Person Mitochondrial IVF Leads to Eight Healthy Births

Three-Person Mitochondrial IVF Leads to Eight Healthy B...

SIN Jul 18, 2025 0 28

Long-awaited results of a three-person IVF technique suggest that mitochondrial ...

What Is Chronic Venous Insufficiency, Trump’s Blood Vessel Condition?

What Is Chronic Venous Insufficiency, Trump’s Blood Ves...

SIN Jul 18, 2025 0 24

After photographs showed President Donald Trump with swollen ankles and bruised ...

New Thermal Hole Opens at Yellowstone National Park

New Thermal Hole Opens at Yellowstone National Park

SIN Jul 18, 2025 0 31

The park’s newest hydrothermal feature has an otherworldly milky texture from di...

Brain Activity Patterns Reveal Why Waking Up from Sleep Can Be So Difficult

Brain Activity Patterns Reveal Why Waking Up from Sleep...

SIN Jul 18, 2025 0 22

Neuroscientists have found that the brain can wake up in different ways, explain...

How Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act Will Raise Energy Costs, Carbon Emissions

How Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act Will Raise Energ...

SIN Jul 17, 2025 0 25

Household energy expenses will rise, as will greenhouse gas emissions, as a resu...

New Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS’s Biggest Mysteries Explained

New Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS’s Biggest Mysteries Ex...

SIN Jul 17, 2025 0 27

Scientists are racing to learn as much as possible about the interstellar comet ...

New Parkinson’s Implant Listens to Brain Waves to Treat Symptoms

New Parkinson’s Implant Listens to Brain Waves to Treat...

SIN Jul 17, 2025 0 34

New deep-brain-stimulation implants for Parkinson’s disease can listen in on bra...

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